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Giles Milton

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Writer and historian. THE STALIN AFFAIR paperback out 5 June 2025. Writer/narrator of Ministry of Secrets podcast. FRHistS.

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  • The Stalin Affair by Giles Milton

    3 weeks ago | waterstones.com | Giles Milton

    From internationally bestselling historian Giles Milton comes the remarkable true story of the Allies' secret mission to wartime Moscow. In the summer of 1941, as Hitler invaded the Soviet Union, Stalin's forces faced a catastrophic defeat which would make the Allies' liberation of Europe virtually impossible. To avert this disaster, Britain and America mobilized an elite team of remarkable diplomats with the mission of keeping the Red Army in the war.

  • Stratford Literary Festival

    1 month ago | stratfordliteraryfestival.co.uk | Giles Milton

    or call the box office on 0333 666 3366 The internationally best-selling historian’s latest book reveals the remarkable true story of the Allies’ secret mission to wartime Moscow in 1941.

  • The Stalin Affair: The Impossible Alliance That Won the War

    Feb 25, 2025 | libraryjournal.com | Giles Milton

    . Sept. 2024. 11:19 hrs. ISBN 9781250353719. $26.99. HIST COPY ISBN British journalist, historian, and author of several best-selling narrative histories, Milton ( Churchill’s Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare) authoritatively narrates this backstory of the Harriman Mission, a World War II alliance between the U.S., the UK, and the USSR, which came about with the assistance of wealthy railroad magnate Averell Harriman.

  • Author Giles Milton, “The Stalin Affair: The Impossible Alliance that Won the War"

    Sep 9, 2024 | wishtv.com | Giles Milton

    Author Giles Milton, “The Stalin Affair: The Impossible Alliance that Won the War” He was a mass murderer, a dictator, a man in a constant state of paranoia, but Stalin was also one of the most effective leaders during World War II.

  • THE STALIN AFFAIR

    Sep 3, 2024 | kirkusreviews.com | Giles Milton |David Grann |Elie Wiesel |Marion Wiesel

    Milton mixes personal details with historical sweep to tell a significant tale. Politics makes strange bedfellows, and war makes even stranger ones. On the huge canvas of World War II, the alliance between the Soviet Union and the British-U.S. partnership was crucial, but it came about only through a combination of diplomacy and desperation. So argues prolific historian Milton, author of Checkmate in Berlin, Churchill’s Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare, and other notable books of history.

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Giles Milton
Giles Milton @GilesMilton1
11 Jun 25

Now out in paperback! Dame Joanna Lumley: "Giles Milton's lucid and magnetic account is utterly absorbing... Compulsory reading" Available everywhere! @johnmurrays @rcwlitagency @casarottoramsay https://t.co/TLLeF0SnJP

Giles Milton
Giles Milton @GilesMilton1
11 Jun 25

RT @DalrympleWill: New @EmpirePodUK pod-drop: Berlin Blockade: Airlift Across The Iron Curtain https://t.co/UGmRBs40Mh

Giles Milton
Giles Milton @GilesMilton1
10 Jun 25

One of the great dramas of the 20th century. Few today realise was a triumph it was for Britain and America.

William Dalrymple
William Dalrymple @DalrympleWill

Don't miss the wonderful @GilesMilton1 talk about the Berlin Airlift @EmpirePodUK https://t.co/FabJUoUDhc